Infrastructure Engineer

swoop; Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory (MN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Swoop Technologies is hiring for a hybrid DevOps/Platform engineer in Minneapolis–St. Paul. You will package and automate our Platform (Linux, Kubernetes) for bare metal and cloud deployments, develop CI pipelines, and assist developers with Linux and Kubernetes issues. You’ll also manage CI resources and support deployment engineers.

The role requires strong scripting, virtualization, and automation skills, with a focus on security and reliability in air-gap or connected environments.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Bash/shell and Python scripting.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization with Docker.
• Strong automation mindset and willingness to automate processes.
• Extensive experience with Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, RHEL).
• Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware, Proxmox, KVM).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (GitLab).
• Familiar with backup, snapshots, and failover procedures.

Responsibilities

• Package and automate the Platform (Linux/Kubernetes) for bare metal and cloud deployments.
• Develop CI pipelines and test automation for Platform software deployment.
• Assist developers with Linux and Kubernetes issues.
• Assist deployment engineers with Platform issues.
• Manage and monitor CI resources running the Platform and test automation.

Skills

Bash/Shell scripting

Python scripting

Kubernetes

Linux (Ubuntu/RHEL)

Docker containerization

CI/CD pipelines

Git/GitLab

VMware/Proxmox/KVM virtualization

Automation

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitLab

VMware

Proxmox

KVM

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

About Swoop:

Swoop Technologies has a mission to organize and make accessible the world’s military and critical infrastructure. We are building a distributed operating system, SwoopOS, that decomposes the world’s equipment into a distributed robotic embodiment upon which a new generation of distributed systems, autonomous systems, and agentic AI can be built and deployed using our SDK, Valhalla, and operated via our browser, Surf. Imagine the world’s equipment - consisting of the electrical grid, communications architectures, manufacturing facilities, and militaries as a trapped supply of inputs possessing the potential to ensure Western military advantage, sovereign control of economically competitive manufacturing capacity, or the creation of a grid that fosters energy dominance. Swoop is liberating these trapped assets, allowing them to contribute to the world’s future as a series of building blocks to be combined at the speed of software, limited by only the hard constraints of physics and the soft constraints of safety. That is what Swoop is building. Not in the data center or cloud or edge on-premise computing node. In the physical world. This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul who can work in-office 3+ days per week

What You’ll Do:

• Package and automate our Platform, which includes Linux and Kubernetes software, to deploy on bare metal and the cloud, in both internet-connected and secure air gap environments
• Develop CI pipelines and test automation for the deployment of our Platform software
• Assist developers with Linux and Kubernetes issues
• Assist deployment engineers with Platform issues
• Manage and monitor development CI resources that run the Platform using the test automation

You Should Have:

• Bash/shell and python scripting experience
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes
• A propensity to automate everything you do
• Thorough experience with Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Linux based Containerization such as Docker
• Experience working both in the terminal and with user interfaces required for managing IT resources
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies, creating and managing VMs using industry standard tools such as VMWare, Proxmox, and KVM
• Experience managing backup resources, snapshots, and conducting failover events
• Experience using git version control and DevOps software such as Gitlab
• Experience creating, troubleshooting, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Ability and willingness to obtain a US Security Clearance

Bonus if you have:

• Experience in hardening infrastructure resources such as STIGing and firewall work.
• Ansible, Terraform, and AWS experience
• Networking expertise
• Experience packaging internal and internet-based software to work in air gap environments
• Experience developing and deploying Kubernetes Helm charts

Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.